Aesthetics Quote by Stephen Mallinder

I wanted to rewrite how rock music was perceived.

— David Bowie

It was easy for people to be derisive about our music because they saw what we were doing as retro. But we were like…

— Eric Carmen

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

— Don DeLillo

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were…

— Brian Setzer

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

— Butch Trucks

When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one…

— Trevor Horn

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

— Flea

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy…

— Jon Pareles

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

— Jo Stafford

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

— Ann Beattie

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise.…

— Lester Bangs

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing…

— Klaus Schulze